 | Illinois. Constitutional Convention - 1847 - 618 sidor
...of men acting in » public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and in all indictments for libels, the jury shull have the right of determining both the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as... | |
 | Consul Willshire Butterfield - 1848 - 264 sidor
...capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may always be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for...facts under the direction of the court, as in other cases. 7. That all courts shall be open, and every person, for any injury done him in his lands, goods,... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 sidor
...press. • "In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, and the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court. " The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and possessions, from unreasonable searches... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 sidor
...candidates for the suffrages of the people, or where the matter pulished is proper for public information, the • truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for libels, the jury, after having received the direction of the court, shall have a right to determine, at their discretion,... | |
 | John Bigelow - 1848 - 538 sidor
...and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party .shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the fact. 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the Legislature, shall be... | |
 | Kentucky. Constitutional Convention - 1849 - 1140 sidor
...officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matterpublished isproper forpublic information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and in...facts, under the direction of the court, as in other eases. Snc. 9. That the people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and possessions, from... | |
 | 1817 - 458 sidor
...officers or men in u public capacity, or where the mailer published is proper for the public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and in...right to determine the law and the facts, under the direcr tiini of the court, as in other cases. 11. That all courts shal! be open, and every per« son,... | |
 | William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1849 - 866 sidor
...men acting in a political capacity, or .where the mailer published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and, in all indictments for libels, the jury (hall have the right of determining both the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hall - 1849 - 482 sidor
...capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may always be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facu, under the direction of the courts, as in other cases.... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives - 1849 - 898 sidor
...capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may always be given in evidence, and in all indictments for libels the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts under the direction of the court, as in other cases."... | |
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In prosecutions for the publication of papers, investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and, in all indictments... 
